Our sense of control is often lost and regained many times a day. Such fluctuations might influence the way we perceive and categorize the world and other people. In this research, Marcin Bukowski from our Centre and collaborators asked how … Continued
‘Both rightists and leftists are prejudiced — but toward different groups’ – what does it mean? Eric B. Dolan on the PsyPost website asks this question discussing the new paper by Gabriela Czarnek, Paulina Szwed, and Małgorzata Kossowska from out … Continued
Our colleague Ewa Szumowska talks about her research on the relationship between the need for cognitive closure and multitasking in Science Trends. You can read the article >>HERE<< Highly recommended!
The majority of psychological research so far was focused on showing that people holding right-wing political beliefs, in comparison to left-wingers, are more prejudiced. Nevertheless, some researchers were questioning this assumption and showed that both rightists and leftists might be … Continued
We have openings for several positions in our lab! The new grant of Maciek Sekerdej (Ph.D.) ‘Between nationalism and cosmopolitanism: Perceptual and motivational factors shaping critical national attachment’ is a great opportunity to join our team and take part in … Continued
Who is a refugee/migrant/an asylum seeker? What journey did they endure? Why do we fear them? What are the current challenges of this situation? How can we help victims of war and persecution? How can we enable integration and come … Continued
This month Rex Wright, Professor of Psychology at the University of North Texas, is visiting our Centre. During his stay prof. Wright is conducting several workshops: on The Nature of Love (11-12.10), Motives to Help and Harm (15-16.10) and Fatigue and … Continued
We are happy to open the Science First series – an initiative to promote psychological knowledge and its application by ‘All in UJ’. Join us to discuss about tolerance with the authors of newly publish book on the subject, our … Continued
We are happy to inform you that Gabriela Czarnek and Piotr Dragon from our Lab won 2018 Solomon Asch Award for the best paper by young researchers published in Social Psychological Bulletin (Psychologia Społeczna). More to be found at: https://spb.psychopen.eu/about#SolomonAschAward Congratulations!
What is the reason for growing support for the extreme right-wing parties in many countries of the world? Where does the distrust in democracy and international integration come from? Traditional explanations referring to the socio-economic factors, religiosity, or private beliefs … Continued
We are happy to invite you to lectures and workshops conducted by our guest – prof. Ying-Yi Hong (Chinese University of Hong Kong)! Professor’s main interests are concentrated on culture and cognition, identity in intercultural approach and on intergroup relations. … Continued
We are happy to announce that Ewa Szumowska from our Centre recently received the research grant from National Science Centre! Full name of the project is “Self-verification in the context of epistemic motivation”. Previous studies showed that people tend to … Continued
If you’re interested in religious fundamentalism and its cognitive underpinnings we encourage you to read a post about studies on this topic conducted by members of our lab – Małgorzata Kossowska, Paulina Szwed, Gabriela Czarnek and colleagues. Enjoy!
How the process of emotion regulation in powerless groups looks like? Marcin Bukowski from our Centre together with colleagues from Spain, Chile, and the Netherlands tried to answer this question in their studies published lately in ‘Polish Psychological Bulletin’. The … Continued
How religious fundamentalism works on the level of basic, neural reactions? – researchers from our Centre together with collaborators shed some light on this complex problem. In the EEG study they found that among people intolerant to uncertainty (those with … Continued
How touch is perceived in social dyadic interactions, depending on its temporal features (initiation / reciprocity of touch) and more or less formal character? These interesting questions were asked and answered in work of Maciek Sekerdej from our Centre and … Continued
Happy Easter to our collaborators, friends, and families!
Two special guests visited our Centre this month. First, we had a chance to take part in a workshop on pre-registration and registered reports conducted by Kai Jonas (University of Maastricht), founding editor of Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology – … Continued
May multitasking performance be somehow dependent on the level of need for closure (NFC)? – according to new studies by the members of our Centre, yes! Ewa Szumowska and Małgorzata Kossowska together with Arne Roets (Ghent University, Belgium) recently published … Continued
We are happy to invite you to the public defense of Gabriela Czarnek! The thesis is titled ‘The Moderating Impact of Effort Engagement on Stereotyping in Older Age’ and it was prepared under supervision of prof. Małgorzata Kossowska, and in … Continued
14th Winter Seminar on Social Cognition and Intergroup Relations organized by our Centre is sadly over. This year it took place in Poronin, and as usually was an opportunity to listen to great talks and take part in inspiring discussions. … Continued
We are happy to invite all of you for the public defense of Krzysztof Hanusz doctoral thesis (titled ‘Wpływ poczucia skuteczności na efekt ekspozycji na grę komputerową’). His supervisor is prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Kossowska, reviewers prof. dr hab. Paweł Doliński (SWPS Wrocław) … Continued
We are proud to announce that our colleague Aneta Czernatowicz-Kukuczka (PhD) has received a research grant from Polish National Science Centre! Her project regards to perception of god(s) and risk taking. Congratulations! The full list of grants that received funding … Continued
What is the position of women in science, especially in Poland? What are their perspectives? Are we, Poles, open and tolerant enough? What holdes some of us back? Where does terrorism come from? Małgorzata Kossowska from our Centre answers those … Continued
We wanted to wish all the best to our Friends and Colleagues! Have a good time!
A new article by our colleagues in European Journal of Social Psychology! Maciek Sekerdej together with Małgorzata Kossowska and Aneta Czernatowicz-Kukuczka from our Centre recently published a paper on the relationship between epistemic motivation and intergroup perception (mediated through the … Continued
On October 4th Marzena Rusanowska from our Centre defended her thesis titled ”Attention biases in depression. Attention Bias Modification Training as therapeutic intervention”. Her supervisors were prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Kossowska, and dr hab. Izabela Krejtz (SWPS) and the reviewers were prof. … Continued
We are very proud to announce that two members of our Centre, Ewa Szumowska and Gabriela Czarnek, received funding under the prestigious Mobility Plus Program.The program, established by The Ministry of Science and Higher Education, is addressed to young scientists, … Continued
A paper on the link between need for cognitive closure (NFCC) and endorsment of conspiracy theories, published in the ‘European Journal of Social Psychology’ and written by Marta Marchlewska (University of Warsaw), Aleksandra Cichocka (University of Kent, UK) and Małgorzata … Continued
Using valid and reliable measures is a part of good scientific practice. Gabriela Czarnek, Piotr Dragon and Paulina Szwed from our Centre together with Bogdan Wojciszke (SWPS, Sopot) aimed to check psychometric properties of the Political Beliefs Questionnaire. They ran … Continued
We are very happy to share that Małgorzata Kossowska, head of our group, was elected a member of Executive Committe of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). EASP is one of the most important social psychological organizations nowadays, with … Continued
Online news outlet “Science & Scholarship in Poland” writes about the studies on conspiracy beliefs that Marta Marchlewska (University of Warsaw) and Aleksandra Cichocka (University of Kent) conducted together with Małgorzata Kossowska from our Centre. Take a moment to get … Continued
On June 12th Ewa Szumowska from our Centre defended her thesis titled ”Motivational predictors of multitasking performance: Need for cognitive closure and multitasking strategy and performance”. Prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Kossowska was the thesis supervisor, the reviewers were prof. dr hab. … Continued
Conspiracy theories may be attractive to people who seek certainty when facing unclear situations – that was an assumption of research conducted by Marta Marchlewska (University of Warsaw) together with Aleksandra Cichocka (University of Kent, UK) and Małgorzata Kossowska from … Continued
Embodied cognition – a perspective joining cognitive with physical aspects of human functioning – gained lots of attention recentely. Katarzyna Cantarero and Michał Parzuchowski together with Karolina Dukała from our Centre tested whether hand-over-heart gesture diminishes other-oriented dishonesty, as previous … Continued
Condition of social psychology is a matter that Arie Kruglanski and Marina Chernikova together with Katarzyna Jasko from our Centre investigate in the paper published by European Journal of Social Psychology. In-depth analysis let the authors reflect on both – … Continued
Małgorzata Kossowska, Paulina Szwed, Aneta Czernatowicz-Kukuczka, Maciek Sekerdej and Miroslaw Wyczesany ran a psychophysiological study on threat relieving strategies in religious context. Groups that hold a certain worldview often react with prejudice toward groups of opposit views. Following this reasoning, … Continued
New paper from our lab! Ewa Szumowska, Paulina Szwed, Małgorzata Kossowska & Rex Wright (University of Texas) published their paper titled “Multifaceted Effects of Need for Cognitive Closure on Effort: A Cardiovascular Response Study. Motivation Science” in “Motivation Science”. In … Continued
A new paper from our group! Sindhuja Sankaran, Ewa Szumowska, & Małgorzata Kossowska published their article “When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Motivation towards closure and effort investment in the performance of cognitive tasks” in Motivation & … Continued
Happy Easter to all our collaborators, friends, & family 🙂
We have a new paper published in Frontiers in Psychology! Sindhuja Sankaran and Maciek Sekerdej from our Centre together with Ulrich von Hecker from Cardiff University examined the effects of norm violation on status representation in the context of the … Continued
Małgorzata Kossowska in an interview for the Polish Press Agency (PAP) explained how people of dogmatic religiosity behave when facing uncerianty. Relying on the recent EEG study conducted with collaborators (Paulina Szwed, Eligiusz Wronka, Gabriela Czarnek, and Mirosław Wyczesany), she … Continued
Ewa Szumowska and Małgorzata Kossowska published a paper titled Need for cognitive closure and attention allocation during multitasking: Evidence from eye-tracking studies in Personality and Individual Differences. In a series of two eye-tracking studies they found that high NFC participants in order to … Continued
Why do we choose scapegoats – what is so special about them, what mechanism lies behind that process and can we replace it with something else? Marcin Bukowski from our Centre talked to Szymon Łucyk from Tygodnik Powszechny (weekly magazine) … Continued
On February 15th we had a novel event going on in our Centre – a visit of students from International School in Dubai. The group spent a few hours first listening to the lecture on the relation betweem prejudice and … Continued
What is a mechanism of dogmatism, which forms does it take, what are the consequences and… why bother? Małgorzata Kossowska, the Head of our Centre, explains this complex phenomena in an interview for the BBC World Service. Listen to the … Continued
This Monday Agnieszka Strojny from our Centre defended her thesis on the role of epistemical motivation (need for cognitive closure) and cognitive resources accessibility on susceptibility to fundamental attribution error. Prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Kossowska was the thesis supervisor, the reviewers of the … Continued
The 13th Winter Seminar took place January 27 – 29th in Szczyrk. During 3 days of meeting we discussed more than 20 presentations on very broad scope of topics (from bilingualism and control deprivation to stereotyping), all connected to social … Continued
We are pleased to share that Piotr Dragon was awarded with HARMONIA grant from the National Science Center. His project The relationship between two dimensions of social perception – warmth and competence – from connectionist modeling perspective. Piotr will work on the project with … Continued
Last Thursday, member of our team, Marta Szastok, defended her thesis on the relationship between women’s benevolent and hostile sexism impact on perception on other women in traditional and nontraditional roles. The reviewers of Marta’s thesis were prof. dr hab. … Continued
To all our friends, collaborators, and people interested in social psychology: Merry Christmas and all the best for upcoming year 2017!
This year our team joined efforts to prepare a noble box: a Christmas gift for a family in need. Again, our leader was Ewa Szumowska! Ewa, thank you for your inspiration and efforts to make it happen.
We are happy to share that during the first meeting of the new Council of the National Science Centre on December 15th prof. Małgorzata Kossowska, head of our group, was nominated as a leader of the Arts, Humanities and Social … Continued
Katarzyna Jaśko, Gary LaFree, and Arie Kruglanski published an article about radicalization in ‘Political Psychology’. In a group of 1496 individuals who committed ideologically motivated crimes in the US they found that instances of low personal significance were related to greater … Continued
During our last lab group meeting we had a pleasure to host Hans-Peter Erb, a professor from Helmut-Schimdt University in Hamburg. He gave a talk on the Need for Uniqueness titled ‘When minority status appeals: The case of uniqueness’. As … Continued
A new paper in “Personality and Individual Differences”! Sindhuja Sankaran and colleagues published paper on the role of need for closure (NFC) and situational appraisals in creative performance. They showed that high NFC individuals would show reduced creativity due to … Continued
Ewa Szumowska and Małgorzata Kossowska wrote second paper on the relationship between motivation and multitasking performance. They again showed that higher level of the Need for Cognitive Closure (NFC) is not a ‘bad’ thing. In contrast, they demonstrated that high … Continued
Apart from publishing research in academic journals it is important to share the knowledge with a broader audience. Gabriela Czarnek from our team published a guest blog post for Veebit on the relationship between Uncertainty Avoidance and political beliefs. You … Continued
We are happy to share that Marcin Bukowski from our Centre in cooperation with Immo Fritsche (University of Leipzig), Ana Guinote (University College London) and Mirosław Kofta (University of Warsaw) edited a book in the ‘Current Issues in Social Psychology’ … Continued
We are very proud to share with you that Joanna Grzymała-Moszczyńska and collaborators received European Roma Spirit Award they were nominated to! The award is a recognition for their book ‘Selected problems of psychological diagnosis of children and adolescents in … Continued
We are very proud to share the information that two of our colleagues received important University awards during the Opening Ceremony of the Academic Year 2016/17! Prof. Małgorzata Kossowska received ‘Laur Jagielloński’ for outstanding scientific achievements and Marcin Bukowski was awarded with The Rector Award … Continued
Not always higher level in Need for Cognitive Closure (NFC) is related to boost in prejudice or stereotyping. Małgorzata Kossowska, Marcin Bukowski, and Piotr Dragon from our group together with Ana Guinote (University College London) and Arie Kruglanski (University of … Continued
Popularity in group is a major concern for some. But who exactly is popular – e.g. does narcissism or emotional intelligence (EI) has anything to do with it? Anna Czarna and Magdalena Śmieja from our Centre together with the team … Continued
We are happy to announce that Krystian Barzykowski’s team with Joanna Grzymała – Moszczyńska from our Centre is nominated to European Roma Spirit Award 2016 for their book ‘Selected problems of psychological diagnosis of children and adolescents in the context … Continued
Another paper from our lab group: Małgorzata Kossowska, Paulina Szwed, Eligiusz Wronka, Gabriela Czarnek, and Mirosław Wyczesany is published in ‘Personality and Individual Differences’. In the article titled “Anxiolytic Functions of Fundamental Beliefs: Neurocognitive Evidence” researchers asked question whether people … Continued
Connection between stress and moral decision making was a subject of interest of our Centre’s team. According to previous research, stress promotes rather deontological than utilitarian decisions. Małgorzata Kossowska, Aneta Czernatowicz-Kukuczka, Ewa Szumowska, and Anna Czarna from our Centre took … Continued
During the meeting Jacek Legierski presented his research proposal on the relationship between cognitive dissonance and rumination and it’s impact on depression. This work will be a part of Jacek’s dissertation.
On April 26th Gabriela and Paulina showed us a decent bit of their research on attitudes toward outgroups. The presentation was titled “Everybody Dislike Somebody (Sometimes): Value Violation as a Source of Prejudice Toward Groups with Opposing Values” and challenged the traditional … Continued
Last Tuesday during the lab group meeting Gabriela Czarnek presented the results from her studies on the moderating impacy of effort engagement on stereotyping in older age. The presentation made us think about both cognitive and motivational aspects of social … Continued
Global economic crisis – a hot topic of movies and street talks is also a topic of current academic debate. Marcin Bukowski from our Centre together with Soledad de Lemus, Rosa Rodriguez-Bailón and Guillermo B. Willis checked whether blaming outgroups … Continued
During the lab group meeting Piotr Dragon gave presentation titled “Exploring the relation between warmth and competence in social perception: a connectionist modeling approach”. During his talk he presented his recent studies on the computational model of impression formation. Piotrek in … Continued
Can patriotism be simply defined by love to one’s nation? – according to current studies, not necessarily. Maciej Sekerdej from our Centre together with Sonia Roccas from the Open University of Israel published a paper on conventional and constructive patriotism … Continued
Is there one universal reaction to power? According to the new paper by Małgorzata Kossowska, Ana Guinote, and Paweł Strojny published in Motivation & Emotion – there is not, at least when we talk about information processing. It seems that ‘Power … Continued
During the meeting Jacek Legierski presented results from his latest study on the relationship between cognitive dissonance and rumination and it’s impact on depression. We discussed the results, its possible explanation and ideas for future studies. Jacek is planning to … Continued
Ewa Szumowska and Małgorzata Kossowska from our lab published a paper that will be published in Personality and Individual Differences. It is titled ‘Need for closure and multitasking performance: The role of shifting ability’. You can read the paper (full version!) … Continued
Soledad de Lemus – the researcher cooperating with us – together with Marcin Bukowski from our Centre, Russell Spears and Maïka Telga have published a paper in the special issue of Zeitschrift für Psychologie. Their article is titled ‘Reactance to (or … Continued
Let us invite you once again for the Small Group Meeting on Cognitive Consistency which will take place May 20 – 22nd. There is still an opportunity to register as an active participant as the abstract submission deadline has been … Continued
Katarzyna Jaśko with Arie Kruglanski and Marina Chernikova have just published new paper titled “Aspects of motivation: Reflections on Roy Baumeister’s essay”. Paper is published in Motivation and Emotion. Advanced online publication is available >>HERE<<.
We’re pleased to share that we are present on the biggest social platform! From now on, CSCS has its own site on Facebook – run in both English and Polish language version. You can read the latest updates – … Continued
Katarzyna Jaśko from our Centre, Daniel Bar – Tal, Arie W. Kruglanski and Philip G. Zimbardo are the psychologists that Gazeta Wyborcza cites in the context of current political situation in Poland. How conflicts are shaped (especially by uncertainty) and how … Continued
We are pleased to announce that two new invited speakers confirmed their participation in the event. Rex Wright (University of North Texas) and Bill Swann (University of Texas at Austin) will join us in Krakow and give talks on their … Continued
We are pleased to share that Cindy Harmon-Jones accepted our invitation to join the Small Group Meeting on Cognitive Consistency! Cindy Harmon-Jones is a researcher working in the field of emotions, motivations, and cognitive dissonance at University of New South Wales … Continued
We are please to inform that our group will be organizing Small Group Meeting in Krakow between 20-22nd May 2016. The topic is “Cognitive Consistency” – topic with a long tradition in Social Psychology. The goal of this small group meeting is … Continued
On Friday, December 18th, Johannes Keller, Chair of Social Psychology from Ulm University (Germany) gave a talk on “What makes people who they are? According to essentialist lay theories the answer is: Genes, social environment, and spiritual forces”. Below you can find an … Continued
Last Thursday, member of our team, Joanna Pyrkosz – Pacyna, defended her PhD thesis on the personality and situational factors affecting success in entrepreneurship. Prof. Małgorzata Kossowska was Joanna’s advisor. The reviewers were dr hab. Anna Zalewska, prof. SWPS and dr hab. … Continued
Our team decided to join Noble Box Project (with a little inspiration from Ewa!). The project is established to provide aid to families struggling with poverty. It is organized before Christmas holidays. Our aim was to prepare a Christmas gift … Continued
Our colleague Joanna Grzymała – Moszczyńska together with prof. Halina Grzymała – Moszczyńska, Joanna Durlik and Paulina Szydłowska from the Institute of Psychology UJ gave an interview for Gazeta Wyborcza (Duży Format, December 10th). They discussed the situation of people (especially … Continued
During the lab group meeting Marta Szastok presented her doctoral research on the relationship between benevolent and hostile sexism on system justification.
Sindhuja Sankaran talked to “Gazeta Wyborcza”, polish newspaper, on latest racist incidents in Kraków. The reason for the article was the attack on Navjot Sawhney, british citizen with Indian roots. The full version of the article is available >>HERE<< (in … Continued
We are pleased to share that Maciej Sekerdej was awarded with HARMONIA grant from the National Science Center. His project “National identity in relational perspective: the impact of intragroup relations on intergroup attitudes“. It will be implemented in cooperation with international team: … Continued
During the meeting we discussed the paper written by Katarzyna Jaśko and Aneta Czernatowicz on the relationship between BIS, NFC, and decision-making. As one of the authors is currently away, we conducted this meeting via skype :).
Marcin Bukowski (PI) and Katarzyna Jaśko in co-operation with Philipp Jugert (PI) and Immo Fritsche from University of Leipzig were awarded a Beethoven grant from National Science Center on the project: “Threat to Control and Social Norms: Conformity, Change or Formation”. Congratulations! Read … Continued
The list of topics dissused during past lab group meetings (in October and November 2015) is presented below. 10.11.2015 During the meeting Sindhuja Sankaran and Ewa Szumowska presented their research on multiple goal pursuit. 24.10.2015 During the meeting Joanna Cyganiewicz … Continued
Katarzyna Jaśko received an award for young and promising scientists from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The prize is meant for the most outstanding researchers with international achievements. Contragulations Katarzyna! We are very proud! The full list of … Continued
We are pleased to share that Katarzyna Jaśko was awarded SONATA grant from the National Science Center. Her project named “Psychological mechanisms of solidarity with disadvantaged groups’ relates to underdog-solidarity and motivation beneath”. It will be implemented in cooperation with Marta Szastok. … Continued
About the Meeting Exerting control over the environment has been recognized within various domains of psychology (basic, personality, social, developmental etc.) as a fundamental type of motivation. The cognitive, emotional and motivational effects of control deprivation had been extensively studied … Continued
The list of topics dissused during past lab group meetings in summer semester 2015 is presented below. 14.07.2015 James Greville, Swansea University, presented his research on “Generalised and derived conditioned suppression in virtual reality environments” 23.06.2015 Ewa Szumowska presented her … Continued
As previous years, a 3-day seminar took place between the 7th and 9th of March 2015. This year we returned to the winter capital of Poland, Zakopane and the seminar turned out to be a great platform to exchange research … Continued
The list of topics dissused during past lab group meetings in winter semester 2014/2015 is presented below. 03.03.2015 During the meeting Jacek Legierski presented his research proposal on cognitive dissonance. 16.12.2014 During the meeting dr Marcin Bukowski presented his results … Continued
Our long-established 3-day winter seminar took place between the 14 and 16 March 2014, for the second time in Gliczarów. Expectedly, the meeting was rewarding, both scientifically and socially 🙂
The list of topics dissused during past lab group meetings in winter semester 2013/2014 is presented below. 07.01.2014 During the meeting Maria Hornowska-Stoch presented her research proposal on “Different aspects of uncertainty and couple reflections about fanaticism”. 17.12.2013 During the … Continued
This event took place between 13th and 15th September 2013. The pictures are available HERE.
This conference was held between 30th June and 2nd July 2013. As the title suggests, the conference addressed social and motivational processes, focusing on issues of both theoretical and practical concern. Symposium and poster presentations pertained to the broadly construed topic of … Continued
The list of topics dissused during past lab group meetings in summer semester 2013 is presented below. 11.06.2013 During the meeting we discussed results of Gabriela Czarnek research on neurocognitive correlates of Need for Cognitive Closure. 28.05.2013 During the meeting … Continued
This conference was held between 27th and 29th June, 2013. The aim of the meeting was to enable researchers to share novel findings about epistemic process, and work towards developing a common, multi-level approach that combines the neuroscience of intra- … Continued
Prof. Małgorzata Kossowska gave interview for “POLITYKA”, polish weekly magazine. The topic was knowledge formation and the need for certainty in everyday life. You can read the interview >>here<< (available in polish only).
We organized our traditional 3-day winter seminar (8-10 February 2013) with social psychology researchers from other Polish universities. It was a successful event that facilitated future research collaborations by exchanging and discussing compelling results and ideas. Integrating science with socializing is what social psychology is … Continued
Prof. Małgorzata Kossowska was awarded with a MAESTRO grant from National Science Centre. MAESTRO is the most prestigious grant scheme in Poland, awarded to experienced researchers for conducting pioneering research, including interdisciplinary research. According to the National Science Centre projects within … Continued
The winter seminar on social cognition that took place in Zakopane from the 3rd to 5th of February 2012 established yet another successful platform and opportunity to meet with fellow researchers from Poland. While the seminar focused on some cardinal … Continued
The Social Psychology department of the Institute of Psychology (Jagiellonian University) has a long lasting tradition of organizing small annual seminars, during which researchers from Poland and occasionally from other countries (e.g., UK, Spain, Israel) are invited to share their newest … Continued
